From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PkQ6d-000793-VI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:57:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00BE9E0967; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 23:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9D6E0967 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 23:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so7116938wwi.10 for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:56:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=mb1UJFgYIpjreGOW1rzR5q7nKF+BRw4U2Bp7CnbmDFc=; b=T86jeAtuFgmWCgtuPHwwMgPxJXMXgu7TNCif8vTbqDV1CfOp8HGsL04U9atGQQYpe7 VYDMrmgtmrnQJbFBnEyu1onnrt83aZJCP/KgfMVxBv/nJe8zv286MF3dJyBwXw47aez3 xVvGQh7JuwZsnZoe6OAwh+YoiqqKkfIFlv2Yc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=HezHvzqrhkGwL0et2nNGqfFLiN4y/em5pEPsExvAfFg42hqWSAgdacIndlt5RUL66K I36Uw1h9/yzhs0LELopYeiwaEf6BUU4GH/71JxtEmqtN+XvoD6rYgTYXQDhB2gfICHwB LIoWvaiYVHQJVGdlweBjg9fsWcRhVF5k/2ae0= Received: by 10.216.24.132 with SMTP id x4mr1334372wex.81.1296604569257; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:56:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-42-107.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.42.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u2sm9184174weh.36.2011.02.01.15.56.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:56:08 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 01:56:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37-ck; KDE/4.6.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <4D46E4C2.4040809@gmail.com> <201102012350.54127.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4D488A89.2070701@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D488A89.2070701@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102020156.32473.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 36d15c721e17750282850c940bfcd0dd Apparently, though unproven, at 00:34 on Wednesday 02 February 2011, Dale did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Yup, that output looks much better. > > > > And you can take a roasting joke in your stride (good man!). > > > > I think we all need to put our heads together and come up with sensible > > formatting for emerge's error output. Coz I'm sure getting tired of > > pawing my way through endless lines of cruft to get to the thing that > > really matters. > > The output from emerge is sometimes confusing. Just when I think I got > something figured out, they change it and I'm lost again. Sometimes I > don't realize it is changed either and that is really confusing. I did > learn a while back that a lot of things is listed backwards. Sometimes > tho with some options, it seems to reverse it and throws me for a loop. > Sometimes I wonder. It makes sense to a programmer. Zac builds a data structure in memory representing the dependency graph of stuff to be emerged. And when an error happens, he dumps it to console. If it were perl, it's like he called Data::Dumper. The order changes probably because he adds statements to order the data structure. > I didn't realize it was a joke. I'm not sure what is in our water > anymore. I know it makes girls have bigger juggs tho. ROFLMAO I think > the water is changing tho. I just hope the juggs, natural ones, stay > the same. O_O You need to come to Africa. We've got the original and best ones :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com